The Secret Diary of a Grumpy Old Woman by Judith Holder

Author:Judith Holder
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Published: 2005-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

June

June 1st

It’s the first anniversary of my father’s death, and we don’t really know what to do as a family to mark it. There is no headstone or memorial statue or roundabout or road named after him, so we cling together, me and my mother, and are in a sobby mess most of the day, torturing ourselves looking at his diary during the last few weeks before his death. He hadn’t written a lot, most of it a string of specialist and doctor’s appointments, but on the last week he wrote in wobbly writing ‘I love you all’ and on the last day but one he wrote ‘Abide with me’, which was his way of saying he wanted that hymn played at his funeral. And I wish we had it on tape or we could go to church and ask for it to be played or something. Death seems such an awkward occasion to mark and of course that’s partly because we have allowed all the traditions and church to drop away from our lives. We go to the Abbey and light a candle and sob some more. You only get one Mum and one Dad and it’s only when they’re going, or gone, that you realise just how precious they are.

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